The MET office of the UK has called for a 150 years of temperature measurements to be reviewed, during a meeting in Turkey today.
The call for ' A New International Analyisis Of Land Surface Air Tempreature Data' comes at a time when public conviction to fight the climate threat is falling, in the light of email scandals, aggressive if not unpredictable marketing from sceptics and lack of political action.
The current sets of data collated by the US and UK using different methodologies, clearly show temperatures are rising, but the MET office believes there is room for improvement in the analysis process.
The analysis will take three years and will be open to public scrutiny through out the process, the scientists do not expect to see any substantial changes in the data but hope it will add to the credibility of the science behind climate change.
A recent UK study from Ipsos Mori showed that the amount of adults that believe that climate change is 'definitely' a reality dropped by a huge 30% in 2009. Many people surveyed mentioned hacked emails for their doubts but a large proportion commented that the lack of political action has made them question the validity of claims.
There maybe no evidence being put forward by climate sceptic groups, but the small number of sceptics in the world are heavily funded and as a result are holding back climate action, in the same way that a similar group of sceptics held back action on the effect of CFC's, acid rain and indeed more recently the link between passive smoking and cancer for the benefit of big business.